Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Needlepoint 2.0 : the new unconventional embroidery

Who said needlepoint is just for grannies? Balmain and Dolce&Gabbana successfully brought embroidery back on trend with their fall/winter 2012 collections. Now the big public started to love it, but let's have a look at how embroidery evolved in the past few years. Needlepoint went beyond bedsheets and fabric and now decorates any surface from porcelain to metal, virtually any pierced surface is a good surface that can be embroidered. The contrast between new materials and old techniques creates very interesting items. Eline Pellinkhof doesn't need needle and thread either, she borrows classic embroidery drawings and paint them on walls, but no one is a braver embroider than Miss cross stitch that, unseen by the police decorates public structures like benchs and fences, she calls it "Street embroidery".
If you're willing to learn to embroider I suggest you to start from cross stitch, stitches are regulated by predetermined steps so the result will be always well refined. If you can't wait to see the result of a diy you can still make an embroidered top without embroider, to see how click here.

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